-
Recent Posts
- 2023 – Music in review
- 2022 – Music in review
- 2021 – Music in review
- Music: 2020 in review
- The Dollfins, Julia Robert, Runaway Nuns & Jett Screams at Mercury
- Beach Party at The Raptor Room
- Music: 2019 in review
- Francois van Coke – Dagdrome in Suburbia album launch at The Jagger Lounge
- Bumblefoot (USA) at Mercury
- The Fizz at mash Tun – live & press shoot
-
Most Read this Month
- Bikini Beach Books in Gordon’s Bay
- Magrudergrind (US), Peasant, Wildernessking & Overhex At Club Med
- 2023 – Music in review
- Oppikoppi 2016: The unsea Day 2
- Some birds on Table Mountain
- One Night in Cape Town 2014: Editors, Wolfmother, Shadowclub & Tatran at the Good Hope Centre
- Francois van Coke – Dagdrome in Suburbia album launch at The Jagger Lounge
- Kapstaden till Kiruna – Kent at Arena Arctica
- Dutch tall ships at the Waterfront
- 2022 – Music in review
Archives
Categories
- Animation & video (9)
- Archives (2)
- Art (15)
- Birds & Animals (8)
- Entertainment (1)
- Events (17)
- festivals (18)
- friends (2)
- Gardening (2)
- Gigs/Live Music (335)
- Milnerton Market (2)
- Music (16)
- Out & about (26)
- personal (23)
- Photography (117)
- Plants (2)
- press conference (1)
- press shoots (20)
- pretty things (4)
- Ramblings (8)
- Random (5)
- Rants (1)
- Reviews (12)
- Travel (32)
-
Thank you for the features…
-
Texx and the City: Behind the Noise
-
Red Bull Social Club
-
Fstoppers: 11 Tips to Become a Better Concert Photographer
- TechSmart Interview Pt1
- TechSmart Interview Pt2
- TechSmart Interview Pt3
- Canon Click Magazine (issue 63) - interview
- The Sharpest Lives - interview
- Canon Click Magazine (issue 47) - interview
- Loseyoursoultorockandroll - interview
- One Small Seed - Selected Creatives
- Texx and the city - profile
- All About Cats Magazine - purrsonality profile
-
Texx and the City: Behind the Noise
Currently listening to:
Tag Archives: camping
Oppikoppi 21: Fantastic Mr Vos Vos Day 1
Friday 7 August 2015 Now in its 21st year, Oppikoppi is legendary among South African music festivals. Its status and distance from Cape Town have always intimidated the hell out of me but attending has always been something I’d hoped … Continue reading
Posted in Gigs/Live Music
Tagged acacia, aking, bitches brew, british, bye beneco, camping, catherine grenfell, cortina whiplash, costumes, crimson house, crimson house blues, crowd, curious incident, danish, december streets, doring, dressing up, dust, facing the gallows, farm, favourites, festival, filth, gigs & festivals, guitars, hilltop live, hokum, kameeldoring, lanterns, les javan, lights, limpopo, long hair, metal, mr vos vos, new academics, northam, oppikoppi, out in the country, outdoors, parlotones, photography, portraits, powersolo, red bull, red helen, rian malan, rock, rockabilly, singing bassists, slashdogs, smoke, south africa, south african, stage, stoker, sunset, tents, texx and the city, thorns, uk, winter days
Leave a comment
Tagged acacia, aking, bitches brew, british, bye beneco, camping, catherine grenfell, cortina whiplash, costumes, crimson house, crimson house blues, crowd, curious incident, danish, december streets, doring, dressing up, dust, facing the gallows, farm, favourites, festival, filth, gigs & festivals, guitars, hilltop live, hokum, kameeldoring, lanterns, les javan, lights, limpopo, long hair, metal, mr vos vos, new academics, northam, oppikoppi, out in the country, outdoors, parlotones, photography, portraits, powersolo, red bull, red helen, rian malan, rock, rockabilly, singing bassists, slashdogs, smoke, south africa, south african, stage, stoker, sunset, tents, texx and the city, thorns, uk, winter days
Leave a comment
Rocking the Daisies 2014
Saturday 05 October 2014 Rocking the Daisies managed to expand from its colossal 17,000-odd crowd last year to around 20,000 this past weekend. The weather was great and, as usual, there was plenty to see and do. I may have gone … Continue reading
Posted in festivals, Gigs/Live Music
Tagged american, australian, beatenberg, belly dancers, bongeziwe mabandla, british, camping, cape town, clouds, crowd, crystal fighters, dancing, darling, dressing up, electronic, eppelsauce, festival, flint meet spark, floyd lavine, gigs & festivals, grassy spark, guitars, international act, international artist, lasers, light, lights, los tacos, mgmt, mokoomba, mountains, music, nick turner, nomadic orchestra, ottoman slap, out in the country, outdoors, pat mccay, people, photography, portraits, reburn, rock, rocking the daisies, rudimental, shortstraw, sky, summer, sun, tattoos, tents, the presets, weekends
Leave a comment
Tagged american, australian, beatenberg, belly dancers, bongeziwe mabandla, british, camping, cape town, clouds, crowd, crystal fighters, dancing, darling, dressing up, electronic, eppelsauce, festival, flint meet spark, floyd lavine, gigs & festivals, grassy spark, guitars, international act, international artist, lasers, light, lights, los tacos, mgmt, mokoomba, mountains, music, nick turner, nomadic orchestra, ottoman slap, out in the country, outdoors, pat mccay, people, photography, portraits, reburn, rock, rocking the daisies, rudimental, shortstraw, sky, summer, sun, tattoos, tents, the presets, weekends
Leave a comment
Synergy Live 2012: Saturday
Sat 01 December 2012 Saturday morning was brutal and not just for me – going big on the first night had clearly taken its toll on a lot of people. Still, any day that begins with a massive Spur burger … Continue reading
Posted in festivals, Gigs/Live Music
Tagged bingo, camping, cape town, cloud, costumes, dead alphabet, double bass, dressing up, flag, fox comet, friends, fuzigish, gigs & festivals, grassy spark, guitars, hip hop, jack parow, jumping musicians, long hair, make overs, moon, moshpit, motheo moleko, mountains, music, nature, norway, out in the country, outdoors, photography, red huxley, rock, rudimentals, scandinavians, shadowclub, ska, sky, sons of settlers, south africa, south african, summer, sun-do q'lisi, sunset, tents, th' damned crows, the bone collectors, trees, two minute puzzle, van coke kartel, water, weekends, woodstock mafia, yes sir! mister machine, your LMG
Leave a comment
Tagged bingo, camping, cape town, cloud, costumes, dead alphabet, double bass, dressing up, flag, fox comet, friends, fuzigish, gigs & festivals, grassy spark, guitars, hip hop, jack parow, jumping musicians, long hair, make overs, moon, moshpit, motheo moleko, mountains, music, nature, norway, out in the country, outdoors, photography, red huxley, rock, rudimentals, scandinavians, shadowclub, ska, sky, sons of settlers, south africa, south african, summer, sun-do q'lisi, sunset, tents, th' damned crows, the bone collectors, trees, two minute puzzle, van coke kartel, water, weekends, woodstock mafia, yes sir! mister machine, your LMG
Leave a comment
Synergy Live 2012: Friday
Friday 30 November 2012 Day 1 of Synergy 2012 didn’t exactly allow for a gentle easing into the weekend. Instead, things were full throttle from the get-go, featuring a crowd of thousands that descended upon the festival’s new venue (the … Continue reading
Posted in festivals, Gigs/Live Music
Tagged ballistic blues, beach party, beast, brass, british, camping, cape town, clouds, crossfire collision, dead lucky, desmond & the tutus, double bass, future primitives, gigs & festivals, guitars, inge beckmann, international act, jumping musicians, landscape, long hair, lucy kruger, mountains, nature, nomadic orchestra, out in the country, outdoors, peachy keen, people, photography, portraits, rock, saxophone, sky, south africa, south african, stoker, summer, sun, sunset, synergy, the prodigy, the very wicked, theewater, theewaterskloof, trees, villiersdorp, water, weather, weekends, wind, your LMG
2 Comments
Tagged ballistic blues, beach party, beast, brass, british, camping, cape town, clouds, crossfire collision, dead lucky, desmond & the tutus, double bass, future primitives, gigs & festivals, guitars, inge beckmann, international act, jumping musicians, landscape, long hair, lucy kruger, mountains, nature, nomadic orchestra, out in the country, outdoors, peachy keen, people, photography, portraits, rock, saxophone, sky, south africa, south african, stoker, summer, sun, sunset, synergy, the prodigy, the very wicked, theewater, theewaterskloof, trees, villiersdorp, water, weather, weekends, wind, your LMG
2 Comments
49M Rocking the Daisies 2012 – Sunday
Sunday 07 October 2012 Waking up relatively unscathed on Saturday was clearly too good to last – Sunday morning hit me in the face like a ton of bricks. It had rained on my way back to the tent the … Continue reading
Posted in festivals, Gigs/Live Music
Tagged beach party, camping, cape town, cloof wine estate, darling, gigs & festivals, music, out in the country, outdoors, people, photography, rocking the daisies, summer, weekend, west coast
Leave a comment
Tagged beach party, camping, cape town, cloof wine estate, darling, gigs & festivals, music, out in the country, outdoors, people, photography, rocking the daisies, summer, weekend, west coast
Leave a comment
